[BC] The purpose of DAs

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

It protects the Atlantic Ocean because there's nobody out there.
Putting a ND signal in Hull, Massachusetts would waste 1/2 (or more)
of the signal, hence the simple pattern.

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Richard B. Johnson
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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Dana  Puopolo" <dpuopolo at usa.net>
> BOTH are valid reasons to directionalize. Just look at WBZ.
> 
> -D
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:03:21 PM EDT
> From: RichardBJohnson at comcast.net
> To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>,
> broadcast at radiolists.netCc: WFIFeng at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [BC] More Tower Sites on Google Maps
> 
> Maybe. However, when I was in the business, we designed
> arrays to protect other stations, not to create a MW Yagi
> to poke a signal into some obscure hole.
> 
> 
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